Improvement in pickers for looms



B. F. DAY & 0 H. NELSON.

PIOKBR FOR LOOMS.- v

Patented Oct. 3, 1865.-

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Pnavauwo, WASHINGTON n c or hands.

- UNITED 1 STATES PATENT .OFFICE."

BENJAMINF. DAY AND CHARLES H. NELSON, OF BIDDEFORD, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICKERS FOR LOOMS.

. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,227, datedOctober 3, 1865.

To all whom it may concern to the'accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan of my picker-box. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the picker and its stalf.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

It is common to protect the picker against the blow which it receives from the nose of the shuttle by means of cushions of leather, rubber,0r hide, the difl'crent layers being secured to each other and .to the picker-staff by bolts One of the defects of these cushions is their liability to be split and torn apart by the violent blows it gives to and receives from the shuttle, making it necessary to'stop the loom to replace it with a new picker, thereby incurring a loss both of time and money.

' Our improvement consists in using a metallie box of any suitable form to receive the leather orother substance com posing the cushion of the picker.

represents the picker, with theeye B to receive the picker-stafl' S. It is filled with a cushion, L, of leather or other suitable material, which is exposed to the nose of theshuttle through a. round opening in front of the box, as shown in Fig. 3. The layers or leaves oi the cushion L are inserted through a slit, C, out in the top along the front of the box. We make a slit, c, from the front to the rear of the box, to enable the operator'thc easier to insert and remove the layers of the cushion.

We propose to secure the cushion in the box by wedges or a spring, and also to cover the openings in the box by a slide or button which shall swing over them. y

We are aware that boxes to'contain disks of leather or other elastic material and to be attached to the picker-stafl's of looms have been the subject of previous patents; but wedo not claimsuch, broadly. But

What we do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is+- The box, constructed as described and represented, having a means of attachment to the picker-staff, an opening in its face to per- BENJ. F. DAY. CHARLES H. NELSON. Witnesses:

'F. EMERY,

CHARLES L. TARBOX. 

